There might be a time when you just need a driver for a printer and you don’t want it to install all the other bundled software. This primarily comes in handy when installing printer drivers.

If your downloaded driver is a .zip or a self-extracting .zip then you’re already in luck. You shouldn’t have to run the Setup.exe to install your printer, chances are the driver is simply located in a sub-folder.

Now for the topic of discussion: FEAD Optimizer related installers. Run the setup file from a command line and give it the following switches: -nos_ne -nos_o

Syntax:
filename.exe -nos_ne -nos_o”C:\printer” (there is intentionally not a space between the o and the quotes)

What this tells the installer to do:
-nos_ne: uncompress the files but don’t execute the installer
-nos_o: output path

HP drivers, Adobe products, and McAfee products have been known to compress their installation files using the Netopsystems FEAD Optimizer. There is an application called Universal Extractor 1.6 that may work for you as well. But the command line has always been the simplest method for getting the driver files extracted.